Series: Enterprise
Episode: Broken Bow (1)
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the beginning
Summary: Klingons have ridges...
Details: Enterprise is set before Kirk took over the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek, when Klingons looked human and wore more human uniforms, however, in Enterprise, the Klingon patient they have who crashes on Earth has the ridges on his forehead and he is wearing the uniform used in the next generation, which appeared way after the original Star Trek let alone when Enterprise was set. Was it devolution or what?
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Broken Bow (1)
Nitpick Category: Plot
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: REAL Close
Details: The Klingon home world is four days away at warp 4.5? Doesn't this seem REAL close? In the TOS episode Errand of Mercy, it's heavily implied that the Enterprise was really far out on the fringes of the Federation and that Organia was bordering between the two empires. That same concept of distance is also reflected in numerous episodes of TNG where the Enterprise-D (max speed warp 9.97) seems to take a LOT longer than four days to reach any Klingon planets.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Broken Bow (1)
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: 10 minutes to the end
Summary: Enterprise crew should know where Rigel is
Details: The Enterprise crew have to use Vulcan star charts to find the Rigel system, and apparently have never heard of Rigel. However, Rigel is one of the brightest stars in the sky, as any amateur astronomer knows. Apparently, the writers of this show know Star Trek history pretty well, as the Rigel system is mentioned many times in the original series, but they didn't realize that Rigel was a real star! Actually, I'm not sure whether this occurs in part one or part two.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Broken Bow (2)
Nitpick Category: Other
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the end
Summary: Klaang's blood
Details: Klaang's blood is red in colour when cut at the end. However, Klingon blood is known to be lavender, and this is clearly shown in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. This points to a clear lack of research.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: The Andorian Incident
Nitpick Category: Plot
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Beam them up.
Details: The crew don't like using the transporter, OK, I can accept that. So why don't they beam up the Andorians? Surely if they greet them with armed security guards they'll gladly relinquish their weapons?!
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Dear Doctor
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle
Summary: I hate it when Vulcans lie like that!
Details: I may be missing a detail or two but I'm pretty sure Vulcans can't lie. Mr. Spock disclosed this information to Kirk as did T'Pal to Archer. Yet what does she say to the Rebel when they're getting beat on? She tells them Archer is not the Captain. She doesn't have the excuse of being half human like Spock. She tries to tell Archer that she is "elaborating" but that's still a lie. A "little green blooded lie" perhaps. Spock I could understand telling a lie because he is half human and went through his rebirth in Trek III. He was probably a little off his game in Trek IV directing and being Mr Spock at the same time. I'm a little vague on this but I'm pretty sure I'm right if you look into it. Please give me some facts if I am wrong.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Shadows of P'Jem
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through
Summary: Terran constellations in Vulcan skies?
Details: When the leader of the Vulcan rescue squad sees the Andorians he says that their presence on Coridan violates the treaty of Tau Ceti. The name "Tau Ceti" refers to 19th brightest star in the constellation Cetus the Whale. I think it highly unlikely that the star patterns in the Vulcan sky would match the constellations of Earth and be given the same names. Nor is it likely that Vulcans would name their stars using Greek letters or words.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Sleeping Dogs
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes
Summary: Units of measure
Details:
T'Pol quotes an amount of pressure at a certain elevation as being 15,000 g.s.c. Where grams per square centimeter (mass over area) would be the most likely definition of that acronym, they are not a unit of pressure. Pascals are the metric unit of pressure (mass times acceleration over area).
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: Sleeping Dogs
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle
Summary: Hair & nails do not keep growing after death.
Details: In this episode Commander Charles Tucker and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed are stranded in a shuttle in space with 9 days of oxygen. They both believe they may die before they are located and/or rescued. At one point Reed begins to shave and Tucker asks him why he is shaving if he believes he will die anyway. Reed answers that he believes that officers should always look their best even if only as a corpse. Tucker responds that that doesn't matter as hair and nails continue to grow for some time after death occurs. The problem is that this is scientifically incorrect, it is only an old wives tale. All biological functions(including hair and nail growth) cease once death has occurred.
 

Episode: General for the Season 1
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: 10 minutes to the end
Summary: Let's blow up the engines, they'll see us quicker!
Details: Shuttlepod One The stranded drunks (Trip and Reed) decide that by blowing up the shuttlepod's engines, they will get the Enterprise's attention and they'll come to their rescue. But the Enterprise was described as being .25 light year away! So they won't see the explosion for 3 months! Luckily, there's no such thing as relativity in the Star Trek universe, and the Enterprise shows up just in time to rescue the castaways.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Season 1
Nitpick Category: Other
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes
Summary: episode fallen hero.
Details: the vulcan ambassador is having dinner with t'pol, archer and trip when she asks who the quaters she was assigned belonged to (they were hoshi's). she continues that she wants to thank HER, yet no one mentions either hoshi's name or gender, not only that but hoshi had to remove all personal belongings before the ambassadors arrival. so how did the ambassador know the quaters belonged to a female (rooting through someones underwear draw doesnt seem very vulcan)
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Season 1
Nitpick Category: Special Effects
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through
Summary: episode detained. pod armament
Details: at one point the shuttlepod assaults the prison in order to take out the defensive cannons. during the assault it is plainly obvious that the pod is firing phasers, continuous yellow beams, yet in evey other episode (including one 3 episodes later) the shuttlepod fires plasma weapons, red bolts. looks like the fx guys got a little mixed up on what the pods are armed with.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Season 1
Nitpick Category: Editing
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through
Summary: shockwave pt 1. magic hatches and t'pol
Details: watch closely when archer, t'pol and trip board the sulibon cruiser. after they throw the stun grenade they go out through a hatch (archer then t'pol then trip) in the next shot archer and trip walk on screen from a corridor to the right followed closely by the arm of t'pol with her scanner, note that in the background there is a closed hatch. in the next shot t'pol is stepping out of that hatch which then closes. the shot switches yet again and the hatch closes for a second time. all in the space of a few seconds.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the beginning
Summary: Xenobiological fact
Details: According to later statements, Klingons didn't develop the macro-head look until after the Kirks time. So, WHY have they got that look a century before? Shouldn't they be more like the classic series Klingons?
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Translation
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through
Summary: Language Translating Device
Details: I won't go into the nitpicks of why the technology on the this Enterprise looks too clean and works too well to be in its primitive form. But here's a nitpick that focuses on the language translation device that the communications officer uses when speaking to aliens.
For instance, a Klingon will begin speaking in Klingon. Then, the communications lady points her device in the direction of the Klingon, and then, in a moment, the language is translated into English. All right, that part's fine, but shouldn't the translated language be emanating from the box, and not the face of the Klingon? In other words, after the translation begins, the Klingon now appears to be speaking English, his or her mouth moves in accordance with the English words, and the Klingon's own voice provides the English words. This doesn't make any sense at all. If the translation device is providing the translation, then the device should be speaking as well, and the Klingon would be sitting there, still speaking Klingon while the device translates away. And because Enterprise predates TOS by at least a hundred years, the voice translated voice should at least sound robotic, maybe monotone.

That's just one of the many possible technological nitpicks for Enterprise.
 
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Give it more juice Mr Scott...
Details: What happened to the technology in Enterprise? Some of their stuff is better than the Voyager Series, let alone the original Series! Much of the sensor arrays, tractor beams, phasers and much more technological advances have gone backwards from Enterprise to the original series, then forwards again to voyager! Was there a war I missed which made them lose all of this technological knowledge or something?
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Those darn phase-pistols
Details: Okay. The whole of PHASed Energy technology (which includes phasers -- PHASed Energy Rectification -- and phase-pistols -- PHASed Energy pistols) doesn't even exist, whether in someone's mind or on paper, let alone in reality, before 2200 at the earliest (according to Worf in A Matter of Time TNG). This show takes place in 2151, 49 years before this technology even appears for the first time, and around 100 years before it becomes standard issue. It shouldn't be in the show. What SHOULD be in the show in place of phase-pistols are laser-pistols, because those are the weapons that were standard issue even after phase technology was first invented (The Cage TOS). Research into this aspect was not done before the show was made, apparently.
 

Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Technological Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Push-button controls for doors and intercom
Details: I realize the Enterprise is more technologically primitive than Star Trek and shows that come later chronologically, but why do the members of Enterprise have to push buttons to open doors and use the intercoms? For years, supermarkets have used automatic door openers--using both foot activated pads and motion-detectors--and intercoms have been hands-free for years. Was this technology lost for a time and then recovered by the time of Capt. Kirk?
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Scientific Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle
Summary: Vulcan Mind Meld?
Details: How does Mr. Spock know of the Vulcan Mind Meld, and knows how to use it, that was apparently performed for centuries? T'Pal has never heard of it and the Renegade Vulcan only learned of it from unused teachings?
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the beginning
Summary: Acquisition - Premature Ferengi
Details: The Enterprise is shown having been disabled and being plundered by Ferengi. However First Contact with the Ferengi didn't occur until 2364 at Delphi Ardu (ST:TNG - The Last Outpost). Prior to that the Federation had no knowledge of them. Yet we see Captain Archer sending records of them to Starfleet HQ presumably with sensor logs reporting their appearance, language and culture.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Too many inconsistencies
Details: For a series which is supposed to pre-date Kirk's time by about 100 years, too much is inconsistent with that. For example: Ent's communicators are smaller than TOS's, yet in the 2 pilot episodes for TOS, the communicators were HUGE!
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Plot
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: More technological inconsistancies.
Details: In the original series episode 'A Piece of the Action' Kirk noted that subspace radio had not been invented when the Starship Horizon visited Sigma Iotia II in 2168. However in 'Enterprise' which is set in 2151, 17 years prior to this encounter, Captain Archer and crew are constantly using subspace radio and even deploying subspace amplifiers along the way. Did somebody at starfleet forget that subspace radio had alrady been invented for two decades when they were building the Horizon?
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the beginning
Summary: Klingon first contact
Details: In the first episode of Enterprise we are reintroduced to the Klingons. This is all very fine except that Starfleet didn't make first contact with the Klingons until 2218. We know this from Dr. McCoy statement in the original series episode Day of the Dove. Archer later gives the date as April 2151. Therefore, contact with the Klingons is impossible.
 
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Starfleet
Details: In the TNG episode The First Duty establishes that Starfleet was founded in 2161. This series however takes place in 2151, and Starfleet is clearly in existence
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Other
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Too many Enterprises
Details: In the Next Generation episode Relics, Scotty is told by the holodeck computer that there have been five starships named Enterprise. That would be the Enterprise from the Original Series, and Enterprises A, B, C, and D, the then current one. So there could not have been a starship Enterprise prior to the one Pike and Kirk commanded.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: 10 minutes to the end
Summary: New $50 bill in the late 1950's
Details: This takes place in the episode where sub commander T'pol is telling the story of her ancestor visiting earth in the late 1950's. ( Around the time of Sputnik. ) At one point, Tpol's ancestor decideds to help a young man get into college by selling the idea fo velcro. The next day, if you look at the collection jar they had set up, you'll notice a $50 bill with a larger picture on the back. Which, of corse is the design that didn't come out until the end of the century.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Other
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes
Summary: They got clothes but where did the shoes come from?
Details: This is the episode where Sub-Commander T'Pol is telling the story of her ancestor visiting earth in the late 1950's (Carbon Creek). When the Vulcans first enter the town they decide to steal some clothes in order to blend in with the Humans. One scene shows them putting on clothes from someone's backyard clothesline. In the next scene, they're walking down the street with the clothes on plus now they have shoes. Where did the shoes come from? People don't normally put their good shoes outside in the weather especially in a poor mining community and especially the nice high heels that the female Vulcan was wearing (and which just happened to be her size).
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Historical Fact
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the episode
Summary: Minefield - Romulans can't cloak yet.
Details: The Romulan Star Empire didn't develop a practical cloaking device until 2266 (ST:TOS - Balance of Terror). In that episode the crew of Kirk's Enterprise was completely surprised by their inability to detect and track the intruding Romulan vessel. Not likely if Capt. Archer has logs of an encounter with a cloaked Romulan ship in 2152.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Other
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the beginning
Summary: Changing Drive Units
Details: During the opening credits, there are two shots of Enterprise moving away from the camera's point of view. In the first shot, there are what look like seven drive units (not the two warp nacelles) on the back of the ship and they are arranged like two triangles, back to back, with the seventh unit in the middle. Somewhat like this, but the periods should be raised dots and the dashes are there to make the spacing look right:
.--:--o--:--.

In the second shot, as Enterprise goes into warp, there are only six units and they're in a straight line across the back.
 

Series: Enterprise
Episode: General for the Series
Nitpick Category: Editing
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes
Summary: a night in sickbay. the premature door
Details: when archer is going down to sickbay to sleep there, watch the door carefully (slow motion might help). it starts to open before his hand has reached the button to open it.
 

A few!!!! More like loads.